So after suggesting the fight club solution above I got to thinking – maybe we should have a debate?!? I mean there is already one going on – but how about we actually have a formal Pro Blogging debate between Nick and Jason?
I think it should be held at an independent third blog (I’ll volunteer as I’ve been both a knocker and supporter of Nick and Jason over the past 6 months). We’ll flip a coin and choose who gets to make an opening statement about their issue with the other (or perhaps we should name a topic on blogging ethics, or on accepting stuff for posts – transparency I guess) – then the other can have a go and we go back and forwards a few times till its all said and done. As we go the rest of us can have our say and then at the end we all go back to our blogging business.

Who knows it might actually achieve something for all of us thinking through issues of ProBlogging and the ethics of it!? Or then again it might just be a good PR exercise for all involved – I mean there is nothing like a good fight to draw a crowd!

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I’m so sick of them. To be honest I think they behave like two year olds with their squabbling. I’m actually going to stop reading their blogs because they are being taken over by bitching about crap. I’d much rather read your blog Darren and come away with some useful information that can actually add to what I do.

While there’s merit in a ProBlogging debate I don’t think either of those two would be good candidates for the debate. For it to be of any use the debaters should attempt to make their case, not score points.

Unlike other posters I don’t think the bitching is about egos or behaving like two year olds. I think its quite simply a way to attract further attention to their blogs.